I'm not claiming competition is bad or microsoft doesn't build similar stuff to others or that anything has been proven in court, red herring much? Parent comm

I'm not claiming competition is bad or microsoft doesn't build similar stuff to others or that anything has been proven in court, red herring much? Parent comment indicated that Microsoft should "innovate" instead of protecting their IP and apparent approval for any infringement of their other IP. I mean who cares about your other innovations everyone should be free to copy those, shut up and keep innovating. As much as people at HN like to parrot the line that patents only stifle innovation there's a strong argument that they also encourage it and that innovation should be protected from pirates and copying. If Microsoft believes their innovations are being copied illegally, saying "they should just innovate more" instead of using legal recourse is silly. Similarly saying all Microsoft has is FUD is silly, who thinks HTC and Samsung are writing $100 million dollar checks to MS to avoid a spurious lawsuit?